This program is made possible with support from the National Parks of Boston "Art on the Trails to Freedom" initiative, the National Park Service ​Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Boston Foundation.

Musicians of Color "meet and greet"

It's a new season! Meet, greet and connect with fellow classical musicians of color.

This program is made possible with support from ​the National Parks of Boston "Art on the Trails to Freedom" initiative, the National Park Service ​Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program, and the New England Foundation for the Arts.

Franklin Park, BSO and Boston pops

Castle of our Skins is excited to join in the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Boston Pops pre-concert festivities with a special performance of string quartets by Black composers! Catch Castle of our Skins - and a host of other local groups - for music, an interactive mural, instrument playground, crafts, photo booth, live animal demonstrations, and more!

Pre-concert festivities begin at 1pm. The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops, in partnership with the City of Boston, will present a special FREE concert in Boston's Franklin Park at 3:00pm.

identity

Castle of our Skins teams up with the New Gallery Concert Series to present a program of works and visual art in conversation with race and the struggle for equity. The program features the portraitures of visual artist Taryn Wells, whose work explores the complicated subjects of race and identity, and the music of Dr. Jonathan Bailey Holland, Alvin Singleton, Gary Powell Nash, Tania León and Anthony Green.

2018 - 2019 Composer-In-residence

Castle of our Skins is opening a composer-in-residence position for the 2018 - 2019 season for composers of African decent or belonging to the African diaspora. The selected composer will receive a compensation package worth $1500, including at least one world premiere performance and an interview.

Ain't i a woman

The "Ain't I a Woman" project will explore Black feminism through music, visual art, spoken word and history. Castle of our Skins will bring together local artists and creative entrepreneurs, musicians, historians, and the sounds - both old and newly created - from female composers in a celebration of Black women and their creative power.

Crossing the line to freedom: a musical narrative

The Boston Lyric Opera and Castle of our Skins join forces to showcase the lives and stories of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., and Paul Robeson through the music of opera. Paired with spoken word, art song, spirituals and history, their lives — and those of other legendary liberators — take center stage.